Faculty Community Engagement Awards

Provost's Community Engaged Research, Creative Activity and Teaching Awards

The community engagement awards are designed to recognize mutually beneficial university-community partnerships in research and teaching.

AWARD: Two $1,000 awards may be given annually to Norman campus faculty. Awards will be presented at the spring awards and honors ceremony.

ELIGIBILITY: Any current member of the University of Oklahoma faculty or staff may nominate one or more Norman faculty for the Community Engagement Research and Teaching Awards. Currently enrolled students may nominate candidates.

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION:

Research and Creative Activity Award

Criteria that will be considered are the degree to which there is evidence of:

mutually beneficial partnership with community organizations and leaders;
research addressing critical community needs;
important and innovative community-based research within the last three years.

Teaching Award

Criteria that will be considered are the degree to which there is evidence of:

innovative and effective teaching;
engaged high-quality teaching;
community collaboration;
institutional impact;

Additionally, there should be evidence that students address community identified needs in a service-learning project.

NOMINATION PROCESS:

Nominations should be forwarded to the respective dean for review and endorsement prior to final submission. An optional letter from the dean can be included but is not required.

Nomination packets must include the following:

Endorsement from dean cover letter (pdf)
Up to three letters of reference (including the nominator’s statement of support), supporting the nomination from community partners and students;
Current vita for the nominee;
Any additional information that may be helpful.

SELECTION PROCESS:

The Community Engagement Advisory Committee shall consider only the formal nominations. The Committee may seek additional data about the nominees from supplemental sources, as appropriate. The Committee shall forward to the Senior Vice President and Provost its recommendation(s) no later than February 1. The Committee also shall transmit all substantiating materials pertaining to all nominees.

The Senior Vice President and Provost will review the nomination materials and recommendation(s) of the Committee and will make the final selection of award recipients, who are recognized at the spring awards and honors ceremony.

Nominations are due November 1, 2023.

Community Engagement Award for Outstanding Engaged Teaching Nomination

Community Engaged Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity Award

Nomination Procedure

Nomination packets must include the following: Nomination packets must include the following:

endorsement from dean (cover letter (PDF));
up to three letters of reference (including the nominator’s statement of support) supporting the nomination from community partners and students;
current vita for the nominee;
any additional information that may be helpful.

NOMINATOR’S STATEMENT OF SUPPORT

Research award: Please explain why you believe the nominee is an outstanding community engaged researcher or teacher. Provide a brief description of how the faculty member uses best practices to facilitate community-engaged teaching or research/creative activity. What impact has the faculty member had on the department, community, and/or students? How does the faculty member actively and effectively engage with community to address community-identified needs? For service-learning award, please include a description of the service-learning projects students have completed.

Teaching award: Please explain why you believe the nominee is an outstanding community engaged researcher. Provide a brief description of how the faculty member uses best practices to facilitate community-engaged research/creative activity. What impact has the faculty member had on the department, community, and/or students? How does the faculty member actively and effectively engage with community to address community-identified needs?